About 4.5 years ago, my oldest son Jack was born. That summer, I bought a copy of World of Warcraft, or WOW as it has come to be called. And I waited until we were in the hospital after the baby was born to open it and install it.

I had no idea what it was. I figured it was just the next version of Warcraft, which I’d LOVED playing in college.

Come to find out, it was what it is… a massive online role-playing game. But there was one problem: I couldn’t play it at the hospital. I had to get online.

So I waited until we got home, and booted it up one night around midnight, while feeding the baby. And I started to play. And play I did.

I played WoW almost every day, for three or four hours at a time. It got so bad (I loved playing it so much) that I was even playing it during the day sometimes, while I was at work. Heh… Good times.

I played until I got to Level 60 (the highest you could go at the time), and I was pretty good. I started a guild, and got it to like 100 members, and had some “good friends” on WoW. And then Blizzard came out with an upgrade. Their first for the game. And I realized that I was screwed. I was going to end up playing even more WoW. So one day, I decided to quit. And I did.

Cold Turkey.

I sold everything I had… gave away all of the gold to my guild members, and turned over the guild to one of my co-leaders.

And it was like quitting cocaine or heroin, I’d imagine. It was tough. Trust me… quitting cold turkey like that. What was I going to do with all of that extra time? Heh.

Now that the boys are getting older, I’m actually starting to think about playing WoW again, but I don’t want to start over again at Level 1… at least not for my main character. So I’ve been looking into buy a character.

3 Responses to “World of Warcraft – Buying an Account and Key Codes”

Dude, you don’t want to let WoW suck you into it again. Ask around and you’ll find PVE in Wotlk is braindead easy, while arena (the only pvp that matters – world pvp died with flying mounts) suffers from the usual class imbalances. I might subscribe again if they offered something like the test realm (choose any fully geared lvl 80 race/class) on a permanent basis. But going back to the grind for reputations and mats (enchants, gems, glyphs…)? Ugh.

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I just made a few changes to the site code to try and shut down the errant postings… The problem is I’m not 100% sure where the postings are coming from, so hopefully, I’ve squashed the bug. If not, I’ll try something different tomorrow.